Emu Loader 2.7
posted in Site News by slein on Dec 22nd, 2001The MAME frontend Emu Loader has been updated to 2.7. Sit back, cause there's a lot of new stuff in this release:
- Changed the "Tweaks" main menu description to "Advanced Tools".
- Added the most awaited "Parental Lock" feature
- Options are in "Advanced Tools" main manu.
- Parental Lock Manager.
- Fixed an "access violation" error that after games refreshing, the list has no games.
- Changed the "Current User" label description on status bar for "Favorite User".
- Fixed the "Show Icons Legends". The proper icons are now loaded from the current default icons set.
- Added the new "Emu Loader Media Player" module.
- Added a preliminary "Full Screen" mode ("Advanced Tools" main menu).
- Added the Num Lock status restore for all Windows versions, after exiting MAME (this is a known MAME bug).
- New pictures preview option: "Stretch Larger Pictures Only".
- Update the DirectShow unit for "Intro Movie" and "EL Media Player".
- Added the awaited Screen Saver.
- Changed a lot of the icons on Emu Loader's GUI.
- Most of internal icons are changed to size 48x48, instead of 32x32.
- Added two more executables options for MAME executables.
- Deleted the entire support for MAME32.
- Fixed error: "Failed to execute program " -createconfig". Error Code2".
- Added the "User Profile" feature.
- Moved a few procedures/functions to a new file: "uCommon.pas".
- Added .wav files support for sound clips feature.
- Fixed the access violation error when switching to favorites games while real icons is activated.
- Fixed an error that was preventing to show pictures betwwen 08 and 11.
- Most of the "Close" buttons are replaced by a "Ok" button.
- Added preliminary support for language translation.
- Added the HotRod SE image in "Preferences" screen with more options.
- Completely rewrote MAME .ini file read/write procedures.
- Fixed Neo Geo bios information with the new release for MAME 0.56.
- Fixed "Garou" clones that was being shown as classic games. They are Neo Geo clone games (for MAME 0.56).
- Updated "size" and "crc" info on audit results.
- Fixed a bug on the custom sample rate (custom game options).
- Changed the source folder from "Fonts" to "Source".
- Completely removed the "Debugger" window.
- The file "zip.dll" is not needed anymore.
- Changed the "Original" filter name to "Master".
- Added three new filter buttons: - Show All Games - Show Only Available Games - Show Only Unavailable Games
- Removed the "Available" and "Unavailable" filters from the list filter.
- Fixed a real icons bug.
- Fixed for good a bug when detecting MAME executables.
- Game size info updated.
- Fixed a classification bug when adding unavailable games and bios to favorite lists.
- Added history and driver info on "Automatic Game Information" feature.
- Changed the default game icons for another set.
- Added "Parental Lock" and "User Profile" tutorial files on the list of "View Text Files" menu option.
- Moved all frontend docs on a new folder called "docs".